Robert Lyle

Full name:

Robert Charles Lyle

Born:

25th January 1887, Dunmow, Essex, England

Died:

27th September 1943, Surrey, England

Education:

Felsted; Corpus Christi, Cambridge

Biography:

Joined reporting staff of Daily Express, London, 1909; afterwards wrote for a number of papers, principally the Observer and Pall Mall Gazette and became Sporting Editor of The Times in 1919; served European War with RASC, attached for the last three years to Headquarters, Third Cavalry Division with BEF in France (MC and bar); did many broadcasts on the Derby, Grand National, St Leger and other important races